MEANING
To walk with heavy steps or travel a substantial distance on foot.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- tramp through snow
- tramp a road
On the page
They tramped through snow until the track disappeared.
He tramped the road between the two houses every evening.
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Word forms
- Base
- tramp
- Past tense
- tramped
- Past participle
- tramped
- Present participle
- tramping
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- tramp
- Present continuous
- am/is/are tramping
- Present perfect
- have/has tramped
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been tramping
- Past
- tramped
- Past continuous
- was/were tramping
- Past perfect
- had tramped
- Past perfect continuous
- had been tramping
- Future
- will tramp
- Future continuous
- will be tramping
- Future perfect
- will have tramped
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been tramping
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: tramp; tramps; tramped; tramped; tramping Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: tramps.
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